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biko-mendoza - viracocha mendoza lyrics

intro
[esé michael the mighty maverick]:
yeah, uh, di, uh, di, uh, uh
pop, pop, pop, pop

[yasiin bey]
if you watch popular media as a primary source of information
then your world view might be very fear based
and there’s a certain level of fear that the system needs in order to keep people partic-p-ting
in a certain type of way, you know
the first response to fear is the cathartic expression of consumerism

[esé michael the mighty maverick]:
c’mon!

verse [esé michael the mighty maverick]
viracocha they don’t wanna see you winning
but i ain’t walking in the building looking timid
looking icy while each thread is custom fitted in the indies
my mestizos dig it, keep your tunnel vision
ain’t flexing with it this the style, i’m committed
if offended, you a victim
if all in it then you a witness
t.w.o. face london looking vicious and they keep sending me shipments
viracocha mendoza
imani, zona rosa in her stroller
that’s la cosa nostra
put my heart on my sleeve, my chest is that much closer
folks could hope to be verboten
but your bars are not as potent
g*nius strokes as g*nius notes my every syllable, black
they so enthralled with shock and awe
but i’m still k!lling them, black
the jazzy god of avant garde
salaam! i’m on the attack
i’m in first stream with the mack
i’m close to feeling intact
my thoughts are seeping out the demons
and they’re really just that
some other beings that i seeing
so i’m dealing with that
on guard in season en suite fleeing
so i’m still in the trap
when i’m less beaten, i’ll retreat
and just straight up peel out the back
if you feeling this clap
i’m really been fat and chilling with cats
their villainous raps, the healthiest snacks
we work to relax and scrimmage with blacks
they smoking the dabs, purest of wax
my flows are like candles burning the wax
’cause they ain’t hearing me, black
’cause they still fearing me, black
don’t tell me that i’m too light to keep it one hundred
because i got a white girl as my one honey
because la raza on my mama side is dumb funny
because the better life just really loves a young dummy
see, what i’m saying is we coming from that one mother
the motherland, god gives and takes nothing from us
so understand, if you’re at odds then you’re the one gunning
so learn to seek a better life for your one sonny
and take my thoughts if you want to take something from me, dummy

instrumental break, transition

outro
[ebro darden]:
when you show up as a black man from america
and you show up in some of these places
how does that feel?

[yasiin bey]:
i’ma give you one story:
i was in pretoria
and i’m standing in pretoria on steve biko boulevarde
straight-exactly
and we looked up like “yo, we on steve biko boulevarde”

[ebro darden]:
-faintly- wow

everybody was young
people was swagged and the sh-t was going on
it was like “let’s go”
it was all black people
same thing was with nairobi
same thing when i was in johannesburg
or when i went to addis
or being in morocco
so i wasn’t unique
you know what i’m saying?
i was just another black person
standing in the street
at twelve thirty in the afternoon on steve biko
there was one white guy standing at the crosswalk
and i looked at him and he looked at me
and was like “i’m the unicorn, in the group
but i been living like this, so it’s not a problem”
i was like “okay, that happened”
i got a snapshot of that psychologically and spiritually
they can’t take that from me
but again, to-each-his-own
i’m not here to, sort of, be leading by example
like “do this because i’m doing it”
i’m – i’ve done this because this is what was in me to do

jazz music stops

[yasiin bey]
when i was standing on top of my project bulding like
“i know there got to be a way out of here
you know, i know this world is bigger than what they showing me”
i just knew it
and i had people in my generations before me that was making moves like that anyways
you know, so it’s just something that activated in me
at a certain point, it was like “okay, i’ma move around
because this is what it is
but i know that there’s more to it
this whole doom and gloom thing is part of the story
but it ain’t the whole story”

- viracocha mendoza lyrics

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